AN eight-week prison sentence for being responsible for the death of a child is an insult to the sanctity of human life.

That was the sentence that Liverpool Magistrates Court gave to the uncle of a five-year-old girl, whose dog mauled her to death, after he had pleaded guilty to owning a breed of dog that has been banned for the last 15 years.

This demonstrates how inadequate and outdated the 1991 Dangerous Dog Act is.

I hope when the man’s mother, charged with unlawful killing of the child and possessing heroin, goes to trial in September the court will not be as lenient.